The Dry Bones
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The Dry Bones

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 30, 20263 min

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read Dow Jones, Cargill, Chevron and DeKalb of the frozen seed, bearing but once in giving

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The Dry Bones My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. And into the heavens, as on a bright day after rain, there came the shapes of four creatures, and they each had the likeness of a man, and each man had four wings outstretched, and each wing had four eyes emblazoned wide open, given to weeping at the worlds they contained.

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mind, an eye-world of light, of fire and air, of water and its mirror, heart and its first fear. And in each world were four names, entangled in its forest of letters, whereupon I could read Dow Jones, Cargill, Chevron and DeKalb of the frozen seed, bearing but once in giving

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up its need. An under-each name were discovered four meanings, literal, figurative, rational, dim. An under-each meaning a counter-meaning, with its likeness of Freud, Marx, Hegel, and Lacan. And the four figures passed as one overhead, their wing-tips linked like molten silver

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